Douglas, AZ Mayor Ray Borane has accused Minuteman Project coordinator Jim Gilchrist of making a “game” out of “patriotism”

Borane charged that Gilchrist is on the “verge of creating an international incident.”[Border control effort draws volunteers, stirs anxieties - Jerry Kramer San Diego Union Tribune March 17 2005]

While Borane claims to be “worried” that volunteers might be shot, the Mayor has a wretched history of defending the integrity of his country. In 2003, he actually received the Ohtli Award given by the Mexican government to that individual who has done the most “to improve U.S.-Mexican relation and…promote Mexican heritage and culture.”

Dating back to 2000, Borane told PBS that deporting illegal aliens from Arizona would “paralyze” local industry.

In 2002, Borane flatly refused to allow local police help enforce immigration law.

Finally, in February 2005, Borane charged that the Minuteman Project is “made up of white supremacists, racists and very dangerous people.”

Like so many other politician belonging to the Treason Lobby, Borane is threatened by the growing demand from Americans that the border between the U.S. and Mexico be properly managed.

Fox News has broadcast three segments of its five part series on the devastating impact of illegal immigration.

Aired on March 17th, the third part detailed how illegal immigration has brought health care in California to the brink of collapse.

Check your local network for upcoming broadcasts. In the meantime, read Dr. Madeleine Pelner Cosman’s essay, “Illegal Aliens and American Medicine” which I wrote about earlier this week.

Dr. Cosman will be a guest on the Mark Edward’s “Wake Up America” radio program Monday March 21st at 10:00 P.M. Pacific Standard Time.

“Wake Up America” can be heard live throughout the eleven western states or over the Internet.

Those “family values that don’t stop at the Rio Grande River” have made their way to my small town of Lodi, CA and our neighbor city of Stockton.

The problem is that the “family value” practiced in this particular case is “historic” amounts of drug distribution from Mexico to the San Joaquin Valley.

Police arrested Sergio Curiel, a known drug kingpin, his wife Celina and their three sons Sergio, Jr., Jose Luis and Eduardo along with three other Hispanic suspects.

Seized at the time of arrest were At least 18 pounds of crystal meth, 22 pounds of cocaine, nine guns and nearly $300,000 in cash.

Not that long ago the valley was famous for its vineyards. But the open border between Mexico and the U.S. is changing that fast.

Or Green Day, as some school boards are calling it, in the usual attempt to hide the Christian origins of the festival.

You can read my March 17, 2001 column, The Camp Of St. Patrick, about Irish immigration in the nineteenth century, (not an unmixed blessing) or you can read An Irish-American Reader Complains About Fulford’s “Ganging Up On America.”, depending on your sympathies.

But Happy St. Patrick’s Day, while it’s still allowed.

In December, I wrote a column about the fall of California’s Central Coastal Valley city of Salinas.

The birthplace of great American novelist John Steinbeck was forced to close its libraries because of lack of funding. The primary reason: an influx of low-skilled illegal aliens that has destroyed Salinas’ tax base. Now the Salinas City Elementary School District, running a $4.4 million dollar deficit, faces state takeover—the equivalent of bankruptcy.

In a last ditch effort to save $2 million, the district sent out lay-off notices to 147 teachers—about 20% of the staff—and plans to increase class sizes to 36 students, creating a terrible teacher: pupil ratio. Using comparative statistics from 1992-1993 to 2003-2004, consider that:
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The district’s Hispanic student population increased to 76.2 percent from 57.6 percent.

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The percentage of English learners rose to 44.2 percent from 27.9 percent..

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Students receiving free and reduced-priced meals increased to 70.8 percent from 54 percent.

Floods of poor, non-English speaking students threaten the viability of not only Salinas schools but schools throughout California.

Steve Sailer and others interested in the subject of the social aspect of genetics are rightly astonished and excited by the appearance of what Steve calls an “ Excellent NTY Op-Ed on Race” [A Family Tree in Every Gene –by Armand Marie LeRoi New York Times March 14 2005] The article, which is well worth reading, raises an interesting question. Since it was in part our carrying Steve’s work on this subject which got us black listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center (and banned from Free Republic) will we have to wait long before these champions of decency condemn the New York Times?

Immigration madness has reached the Nth degree in Arizona.

On March 8, the Arizona House approved by a 39-20 vote a proposal for the state to contract to have a private prison built in Mexico to house illegal aliens now incarcerated in Arizona.

Arizona taxpayer dollars would be used to build a jail in Mexico to employ Mexicans to guard Mexican illegal alien prisoners who have committed crimes in the United States!

Why not just enforce the immigration laws?

Maps may be another thing to go paperless; I’ve been playing with the new Google Mapping tool.

Here’s a section of the border at Imperial Beach, California. This has been the frontline for illegal immigration for sometime.

Finally, as Sam Francis wrote in 2001, they built a wall, without asking President Bush if it would work. It worked.

In Imperial Beach, ever since the fence went up, the “tourists are coming in droves, and more people are moving in than out,” the Times reports, and “grateful residents say the stepped-up vigilance has all but sealed the once popular smuggling routes across their beaches, parks and backyards and helped revive the area’s economy and improve the quality of life.”

I noticed looking at this map that in order to invade the US by this route, you practically have to run through a couple of Naval Reservations, I.E. Imperial Beach Naval Air Station, and the Naval Radio Station north of it. (You can see this if you zoom on the map.) Further north, you come San Diego, which is just wall to wall Navy. So if you’re wondering if troops are ever going to be on the border, they’re already there. They just haven’t been ordered to do anything. Busy elsewhere, perhaps.

Immigration madness has reached the Nth degree in Arizona.

On March 8, the Arizona House approved by a 39-20 vote a proposal for the state to contract to have a private prison built in Mexico to house illegal aliens now incarcerated in Arizona.

Arizona taxpayer dollars would be used to build a jail in Mexico to employ Mexicans to guard Mexican illegal alien prisoners who have committed crimes in the United States!

Why not just enforce the immigration laws?

Last month we noted that the thoughtful operator of The Epic of Gilgamesh blog occasionally diverts from chronicling life on an Appalachian Mountain to writing biting critiques of the impact of immigration on ordinary Americans. Yesterday he felt ironical:

“Try This!”

“Try driving around as a Gringo in Mexico with no liability insurance……and have an accident.”

“Enter Mexico illegally. Never mind immigration quotas, visas, international law, or any of that nonsense.”

“Once there, demand that the local government provide free medical care for you and your entire family.”

Demand bilingual nurses and doctors.

“Demand free bilingual local government forms, bulletins, etc…. Speak only English at home and in public and insist that your children do likewise.”

“Demand classes on American culture in the Mexican school system.”

“Good luck! You’ll be demanding for the rest of time or soon dead. Because it will never happen. It will not happen in Mexico or any other country in the world…”

”Except right here…”

”Land of the naive.”

Two responses he got to the item we noted concerning the pirating of the Georgia State scholarship program by illegal immigrants were articulate, moving, and deserve attention. A Texan student wrote:

“I’m a student at the University of North Texas in Denton, and have had the unfortunate experience of watching my tuition costs go up every semester and my classes overload with incompetent students who rarely speak english. To make matters worse, scholarship/grant resources are drying up and now even subsidized loans are almost impossible to get.”

“Of course, I could just bite the bullet, live like a pauper and work my way through school right?”

”Wrong.”

”I spent last week in a line with 300 students filling out applications for a minimum wage warehouse job. Those are now as precious as gold here since the local economy here in Denton is now unable to provide the student body with enough jobs because the local employers prefer to employ illegal immigrants who will work for ultra-low wages, take any abuse, and never leave their jobs under any circumstances…”

A correspondent from Virginia Tech’s home, Blacksburg, VA supplied:

““While having lunch out one day, I asked a young waitress what her major was etc. Learning that it was some form of bioengineering, I …told her that she was lucky that it wasn’t computer science (I …have followed its demise via immigration for some time now). Her response was immediate: “Oh, yes! So many students who just got degrees in CS can’t get jobs in the field. Word gets back to the students in the lower grades so they switch their majors…”.”

“The “Computer Industry” keeps saying that it can’t get enough tech workers so it needs more & more H1B’s etc. Of course, it only wants to import cheap labor from mainly China & India while our college educated young people work at Radio Shack because they can’t find jobs in the field.… Students can’t pay back 5-figure loans by working at Radio Shack…..”.”

Norm Matloff rules! When the victims of this disaster are as alert as these young people, change is coming.